Hello Tim,
I did this decision beacuse of the following reasons. RAR makes solid
archives, i.e. the size of the package is much smaller than that of
ZIP-Archives. This saves time for downloading. "unRAR", the decompression
utility, is free. Here is an excerpt from the license:
- The source code of unRAR utility is freeware. This means:
- ...
-
- 2. The unRAR sources may be used in any software to handle RAR
- archives without limitations free of charge, but cannot be used
- to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary.
- Distribution of modified unRAR sources in separate form or as a
- part of other software is permitted, provided that it is clearly
- stated in the documentation and source comments that the code may
- not be used to develop a RAR (WinRAR) compatible archiver.
- ...
If you download the archiver, you will find the source-code in this package.
It will compile for very many platforms. There are also precompiled binaries
on their website.
By the way, I also considered to use bzip2 from
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/, which achieves even better compression
than RAR and falls under GPL. But you're right: for the next package, I will
use a GPL'ed archiver.
Yours,
CK.
> Hi
> Thanks for the work, but one question: Why did you create the package
> of an open source software in a format which requires the purchase of
> a commercial software priced at 35 $, when there are free alternatives
> like Infozip?
>
> Bye
> Tim
> > This package should suffice running an SSL-aware Apache without other
> > packages. It includes the binaries, documentation and a sample
> config-tree.
> > The URL for the package is
> >
> > ftp://ftp.modssl.org/contrib/
> > file://Apache_1.3.9-mod_ssl_2.4.9-openssl_0.9.4-WIN32-i386.rar
> >
> > It can be extracted using the the archiver from http://www.rarsoft.com/
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